1. Bought a couple of personal domains and signed-up with Fastmail. Configured Fastmail to periodically pull emails from my legacy gmail account. I use the Fastmail webapp on desktop and their android app on phone/tablet.
2. Removed google analytics from my personal website/blog.
3. Uninstall Chrome on desktops and disable it on Android phone/tablet.
4. Use Firefox with Multi Account Containers add-on so that I am by default signed-out of google unless I need to do specific things, which are sandboxed in specific tabs.
5. Paid for Kagi search and set it as the default search provider on my desktops and devices.
6. Migrated a few legacy accounts from Google oauth sign-in to email/password.
Still to do:
a. Migrate my calendars from Google to Fastmail. For various reasons I need to be able to share calendars on Google and I haven't had time to sort this out.
b. Migrate off Google Photos. I take a lot of pics with my phone and google photos is just so convenient. I try to only keep six months of pictures on google and archive the rest to a machine that I own.
c. Google Movies/TV. I have a fair amount of bought content, mainly because its convenient to stream on a tablet. Not sure what the solution is there.
d. I still find google maps useful for a few things - particularly as a way to discover opening hours for businesses. My car has a built-in, non-android, GPS so I don't use google maps for driving.
e. I still have an android phone and tablet, and I'm sure they're still phoning home about me.
> b. Migrate off Google Photos. I take a lot of pics with my phone and google photos is just so convenient. I try to only keep six months of pictures on google and archive the rest to a machine that I own.
Not knowing why it's so convenient for you, have your tried syncthing for your images? You could write a cronjob on your machine that automatically removes old files from the synced folder as well.
> c. Google Movies/TV. I have a fair amount of bought content, mainly because its convenient to stream on a tablet. Not sure what the solution is there.
Just wait until your licensed content becomes inaccessible because google stops paying the copyright mobsters. You can then repurchase all that stuff without feeling bad about it.
> e. I still have an android phone and tablet, and I'm sure they're still phoning home about me.
We still haven't reached the day of fuchsia, so there's other distributions that will separate google from your life:
Rightly or not, I'm always a little cautious about synchronisation - I worry about stuff getting overwritten, and this has bitten me in the past. But I've not used syncthing so I'll take a look at that.
Movies: I remember when Microsoft dropped PlaysForSure, and i think that over a long enough timescale "my" google content will go the same way. No easy solutions there, unless i go back to physical media. Ideally there would be a backup solution like Kalibre for Kindle ebooks
> Use Firefox with Multi Account Containers add-on so that I am by default signed-out of google unless I need to do specific things, which are sandboxed in specific tabs
2. Removed google analytics from my personal website/blog.
3. Uninstall Chrome on desktops and disable it on Android phone/tablet.
4. Use Firefox with Multi Account Containers add-on so that I am by default signed-out of google unless I need to do specific things, which are sandboxed in specific tabs.
5. Paid for Kagi search and set it as the default search provider on my desktops and devices.
6. Migrated a few legacy accounts from Google oauth sign-in to email/password.
Still to do:
a. Migrate my calendars from Google to Fastmail. For various reasons I need to be able to share calendars on Google and I haven't had time to sort this out.
b. Migrate off Google Photos. I take a lot of pics with my phone and google photos is just so convenient. I try to only keep six months of pictures on google and archive the rest to a machine that I own.
c. Google Movies/TV. I have a fair amount of bought content, mainly because its convenient to stream on a tablet. Not sure what the solution is there.
d. I still find google maps useful for a few things - particularly as a way to discover opening hours for businesses. My car has a built-in, non-android, GPS so I don't use google maps for driving.
e. I still have an android phone and tablet, and I'm sure they're still phoning home about me.